I wonder if someone could help me to make simple script wich take layer's names and making list from them on A4 canvas.
Now i just doing screenshot of illustrator list and modifying it via photoshop to print, but it is too small, because each ai file has about 25 - 50 layers.
Looks like that:
I tryed to modify John Wundes script, wich renders list of swatches, but it seems to hard for my skill.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Render Swatch Legend v1.1 -- CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5
//>=--------------------------------------
//
// This script will generate a legend of rectangles for every swatch in the main swatches palette.
// You can configure spacing and value display by configuring the variables at the top
// of the script.
// update: v1.1 now tests color brightness and renders a white label if the color is dark.
//>=--------------------------------------
// JS code (c) copyright: John Wundes ( john@wundes.com ) www.wundes.com
// copyright full text here: http://www.wundes.com/js4ai/copyright.txt
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
doc = activeDocument,
swatches = doc.swatches,
cols = 4,
displayAs = "CMYKColor", //or "RGBColor"
rectRef=null,
textRectRef=null,
textRef=null,
rgbColor=null,
w=150;
h=100,
h_pad = 10,
v_pad = 10,
t_h_pad = 10,
t_v_pad = 10,
x=null,
y=null,
black = new GrayColor(),
white = new GrayColor()
;
black.gray = 100;
white.gray = 0;
activeDocument.layers[0].locked= false;
var newGroup = doc.groupItems.add();
newGroup.name = "NewGroup";
newGroup.move( doc, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING );
for(var c=0,len=swatches.length;c<len;c++)
{
var swatchGroup = doc.groupItems.add();
swatchGroup.name = swatches
.name;
x= (w+h_pad)*(c% cols);
y=(h+v_pad)*(Math.floor((c+.01)/cols))*-1 ;
rectRef = doc.pathItems.rectangle(y,x, w,h);
rgbColor = swatches
.color; rectRef.fillColor = rgbColor;
textRectRef = doc.pathItems.rectangle(y- t_v_pad,x+ t_h_pad, w-(2*t_h_pad),h-(2*t_v_pad));
textRef = doc.textFrames.areaText(textRectRef);
textRef.contents = swatches
.name+ "\r" + getColorValues(swatches .color) ; textRef.textRange.fillColor = is_dark(swatches
.color)? white : black; //
rectRef.move( swatchGroup, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING );
textRef.move( swatchGroup, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING );
swatchGroup.move( newGroup, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND );
}
function getColorValues(color)
{
if(color.typename)
{
switch(color.typename)
{
case "CMYKColor":
if(displayAs == "CMYKColor"){
return ([Math.floor(color.cyan),Math.floor(color.magenta),Math.floor(color.yellow),Math.floor(color.black)]);}
else
{
color.typename="RGBColor";
return [Math.floor(color.red),Math.floor(color.green),Math.floor(color.blue)] ;
}
case "RGBColor":
if(displayAs == "CMYKColor"){
return rgb2cmyk(Math.floor(color.red),Math.floor(color.green),Math.floor(color.blue));
}else
{
return [Math.floor(color.red),Math.floor(color.green),Math.floor(color.blue)] ;
}
case "GrayColor":
if(displayAs == "CMYKColor"){
return rgb2cmyk(Math.floor(color.gray),Math.floor(color.gray),Math.floor(color.gray));
}else{
return [Math.floor(color.gray),Math.floor(color.gray),Math.floor(color.gray)];
}
case "SpotColor":
return getColorValues(color.spot.color);
}
}
return "Non Standard Color Type";
}
function rgb2cmyk (r,g,b) {
var computedC = 0;
var computedM = 0;
var computedY = 0;
var computedK = 0;
//remove spaces from input RGB values, convert to int
var r = parseInt( (''+r).replace(/\s/g,''),10 );
var g = parseInt( (''+g).replace(/\s/g,''),10 );
var b = parseInt( (''+b).replace(/\s/g,''),10 );
if ( r==null || g==null || b==null ||
isNaN(r) || isNaN(g)|| isNaN(b) )
{
alert ('Please enter numeric RGB values!');
return;
}
if (r<0 || g<0 || b<0 || r>255 || g>255 || b>255) {
alert ('RGB values must be in the range 0 to 255.');
return;
}
// BLACK
if (r==0 && g==0 && b==0) {
computedK = 1;
return [0,0,0,1];
}
computedC = 1 - (r/255);
computedM = 1 - (g/255);
computedY = 1 - (b/255);
var minCMY = Math.min(computedC,
Math.min(computedM,computedY));
computedC = (computedC - minCMY) / (1 - minCMY) ;
computedM = (computedM - minCMY) / (1 - minCMY) ;
computedY = (computedY - minCMY) / (1 - minCMY) ;
computedK = minCMY;
return [Math.floor(computedC*100),Math.floor(computedM*100),Math.floor(computedY*100),Math.floor(computedK*100)];
}
function is_dark(color){
if(color.typename)
{
switch(color.typename)
{
case "CMYKColor":
return (color.black>50 || (color.cyan>50 && color.magenta>50)) ? true : false;
case "RGBColor":
return (color.red<100 && color.green<100 ) ? true : false;
case "GrayColor":
return color.gray > 50 ? true : false;
case "SpotColor":
return is_dark(color.spot.color);
return false;
}
}
}
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arop16461101​,
something like this?
var theLayers = app.activeDocument.layers;
var str = new Array ();
for (i = 0; i < theLayers.length; i++) {
str.push (theLayers.name)
}
var tF = theLayers[0].textFrames.add();
tF.contents = str.join ("\r");
alert("new text frame with layerlist added on layer " + theLayers[0].name);
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arop16461101​,
something like this?
var theLayers = app.activeDocument.layers;
var str = new Array ();
for (i = 0; i < theLayers.length; i++) {
str.push (theLayers.name)
}
var tF = theLayers[0].textFrames.add();
tF.contents = str.join ("\r");
alert("new text frame with layerlist added on layer " + theLayers[0].name);
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I need to do exactly this but am entirely new to scripts - are you able to advise. I have a document with hundreds of layers of different geographical regions, named accordingly. I need a list of those names in layer order as editable text. I have this code saved into a .jsx which I can run but just get a dialogue box with the rror below.
Like I said, total novice - is there lines in the script I need to customise? Do I need to be in a fresh layer? Do I need a fresh text box drawn even?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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